‘A senseless killing, for a motor car’

THERE was chaos in the Farrell house after the two thugs fled.

Thomas Farrell managed to stagger from the hall to a seat in the front room. He sat slumped, bleeding and breathing heavily and falling in and out of consciousness.

Two of his five children, aged between seven and their early teens, witnessed the stabbing and shouted for their mother Gráinne. Mrs Farrell’s screams alerted neighbours and the other children also came running from various parts of the house.